The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently sent another million dollars over to the Peninsula Open Space Trust to save redwood forests in the Bay Area. This isn’t the first property acquisition land grant that the Moore Foundation has committed to, but there are still 30,000 acres of unprotected redwoods in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties.

A person working in the coastal arena might pass over the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s San Francisco program as it focuses only on Land Conservation and Science/Tech Museums. This would be a mistake as the Land Conservation program also invests in wetlands, a vital part of marine ecology.

There is a shortage of doctors and an overwhelming number of sick people in California, and one solution is shared medical appointments. Some of the Bay Area's biggest names in philanthropy are buying into the plan, namely the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

He might be best known for his Silicon Valley innovations, but will Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's legacy include old-growth redwoods? In January, Save the Redwoods League met half of their fundraising goal for two forest preservation projects thanks to a donation from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. It was just another example of the foundation's commitment to conservation in the Bay Area.